I guess the biggest problem I have with this is that Geralt has a relatively well know reputation, people tell stories about the White Wolf. And, in the novels at least, he regularly solves confrontations through intimidation and diplomacy as much as he does violence. Obviously I understand from a gameplay perspective why they've gotta have brigands and stuff picking fights with him, but I'd like to see maybe a system wherein he uses his Jedi (sorry, Witcher) mind tricks outside of pre determined conversation trees.Adam Jensen said:You assume that all people are reasonable. But they're not. People are incredibly stupid even today. There are idiots that don't shy away from trying to fight a professional boxer or MMA fighter or a Navy Seal. You'd think those people would know that some of them could kill them with one hand. Nope. Don't know, don't care. Testosterone and confidence mixed with ungodly stupidity is everywhere. Most of us here are clever geeks and we're simply not fully aware of how stupid people really are. Even I often make assumptions based on the idea that people would react reasonably to a situation, yet they hardly ever do.Casual Shinji said:That doesn't explain all those regular mooks wanting to pick a fight with you though, knowing full well what you are. I'm beginning to notice that a lot of quest based fights with soldiers or bandits starts with them bolstering how there's only one of you and a larger amount of them. If Witchers are this infamous and thought of as monsters, don't these guys know I have skirmishes like this for breakfast? You'd think they wouldn't wanna fuck with me on general principal. I don't know, it is the Middle Ages -- maybe these people really are that stupid.
No huge criticism, just a funny observation.
Although yeah, a lot of people hate Witchers, and for pretty decent in universe reasons. Geralt especially, considering that incident in Blavikin. Although actually that makes the mooks picking fights with you even weirder because he's infamous for a specific incident where he killed seven (pretty tough customers) at once.